Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real insult to democracy, it seems to me, is to treat it as some sort of tennis game where victory is the definitive judgment on the players. And the real insult to the electorate is the patronizing attitude that it is a sort of lumbering collective beast, immune from error because it reaches its judgments through some mystical process that is beyond rational discourse, rather than an amalgam of individuals, each one fully capable of being right and being wrong...
...infected host computer first sent a short message through "electronic mail" over the Internet to the target computer. By using a number of tricks, Morris' program made the target machine treat the message as a command program instead of ordinary mail, which the computer places into a file to be read by users if they wish. The message--now acting like a program--told each computer which received it to ask the host computer for the rest of the virus, according to Mckay Professor of Computer Science Mark Friedell...
...raucous crowd had a different treat for Crimson goalie John Devin. During a break in play, a fan tossed an object better suited to the bedroom on the ice. Devin caught the object on his stick and flipped it back into the stands. The crowd returned it, cheering...
...complains that the public and the press treat her differently than they would treat a man facing similar family problems. "They treat women differently," she says, comparing her own negative publicity to that surrounding the drug charges against the son of former vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro...
...messengers moving between cells. In 1964 he developed a revolutionary drug for heart disease that blocks the effect of natural stimulants like adrenaline on special nerve receptors, or beta receptors, thus preventing the heart rate from increasing with damaging speed. Black's beta blocker is now widely used to treat heart disease and hypertension. Said Black with a laugh when he received the potentially overstimulating news: "I wished I had had my beta blocker handy...